Created by the Democratic National
Committee, developed by a secret White House brain trust, and
initially funded by the George Soros / Herb Sandler / Hillary
Clinton money lists, the Center for American Progress is an echo
chamber for the Democratic Party and left-wing politics in general.
A favorite source of NPR (National Public Radio) stories.

Self-Description: The Center for American Progress is a think tank dedicated to
improving the lives of Americans through ideas and actions. We shape
the national debate. We share our point of view with everyone who
can put our ideas into practice and effect positive change. That
means online, on campus, in the media, on the shop floor, in faith
communities, and in the boardroom.

Actual: Power and pressure
front group for the Democratic Party created by a secret "brain
trust" within the Democratic National Committee and developed
specifically to promote Democrat ideas and candidates.Documentation in Ron Arnold's "Freezing in the Dark."

Brief history:
The Center for American Progress began as a way to cope with the new
funding restrictions of the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign
Reform Act. Its construction team was assembled by Democratic
National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe.

TERRY
McAULIFFE Longtime fundraiser and
political advisor for the Democratic Party. He was chairman,
Democratic National Committee (2001-2005); Co-Chairman of President
Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign; also chairman of the 2008
Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. He lost the 2009 Virginia
Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
In October 2002, McAuliffe created a secret brain trust of seven experienced
operatives to solve the problem of campaign funding limits, which
limits benefitted Republicans and hurt Democrats.

HAROLD
ICKES Leading consultant to the
Democratic National Committee through his Washington, D.C.-based
firm, The Ickes & Enright Group. He was Clinton White House Deputy
Chief of Staff 1994-1996. He had been a tough labor lawyer with
Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, whose union clients had been linked
with four Mafia crime families. A very rough customer by all
accounts.

JOHN PODESTA Clinton White House Chief of Staff, hard-working,
at ease with Republicans and Democrats, rare sense of humor, low
tolerance of nonsense, mean and surly only when necessary. A fan of
TV's The X Files and loves roller coasters. Easily one of
America's smartest political operatives. Barack Obama's
Transition Team Leader, recruited from his job as head of CAP.

Ickes
and Podesta quickly brought in Morton Halperin, Ph.D., who
operated the Washington, D.C. office of
George
Soros'
Open Society Institute.Halperin had been a senior fellow with
the Council on Foreign Relations, and a senior staff member of the
National Security Council under Presidents Nixon and Clinton. He had
been Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Johnson
administration, but held views far to the left of most political
appointees.

Morton Halperin's relations are mapped on
Muckety.George Soros's relations are mapped on
Muckety.

Ultimately, it was Podesta and
Halperin who created the American Majority Institute in 2002 and
re-named it the Center for American Progress in 2003. George Soros
pledged $3 million in startup money, and the Sandlers, Herb and
Marion, gave $500,000 for startup and $2 million the next year. Both
Podesta and Halperin served as
officers of the new think tank, Podesta as President and CEO,
Halperin as Vice President.

The new CAP failed to Dump Bush in the 2004 election, but had
significant impact on the 2006 Democratic congressional victories.
It was a major factor in the 2008 elections, and Podesta ran one of
the most successful transition teams in American political history,
despite failures in vetting a few cabinet officers and other public
embarrassments. Podesta filled literally hundreds of key
administration positions with left wing true believers, many of whom
are far to the left of President Obama.

Podesta's
Center also hosts a number of unemployed hard-core leftists,
including disgraced former Obama administration "Green Jobs Czar"
Van Jones,
giving him employment as Senior Fellow for the "Green Opportunity
Initiative." Jones was outed by Fox News icon Glenn Beck for
youthful remarks about being a communist (he was never a party
member), calling Republicans who thwarted Obama "assholes" on an
embarrassing YouTube video, and signing the "Truther Petition" in
the New York Times claiming President Bush knew in advance
about 9/11.